"Many of them have useful properties," Draven said. "Plus I'm sure it would help to recognise the truly dangerous ones if you decided to travel."

The Herbology teacher, Herbert Beery, was also Hufflepuff's Head Of House. He started the lesson with a revision of the previous lesson's work on wand trees, then went on to an instruction of how to take care of Screechsaps and Flytraps. The latter were not the tiny little plants that Muggles called Venus Flytraps; but a much more dangerous version that had real teeth in its jaws and could give out a nasty nip. Its sap was however useful in healing sunburn.

Wendy took notes, too, but didn't want to have to touch them; he much preferred learning that facts and having someone else mess with them. She'd stick to the Muggle method of Tea tree oil for sunburns, thanks.

Draven wasn't bothered, overmuch; his family mansion house was situated on top of a high hill and the snow stayed well into spring. He generally wasn't around for that; Draven much prefered to spend Easter and Christmas at Hogwarts and only ever went home for the summer holidays.